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Walk Through Darkness
Written by David Anthony Durham
Narrated by Kevin R. Free
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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David Anthony Durham has won the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Fiction Award and a Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award. Walk Through Darkness is the story of a fugitive slave in search of his pregnant wife, and the lethal hunter who is tracking him. As these two quests intertwine, they form a fascinating mosaic of the Civil War era. "Poetically graceful . Combines history and morality with a dynamic intelligence."-The New York Times
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I read this in 2 days. It's one of the most beautifully written books I've read in a while, a dark story of a runaway slave and the white man who's tracking him for distinctive reasons that are revealed through hints gradually throughout the book.